I'd Last Less Than a Minute

Tidbit of info from tonight's Krav Maga class:

If you can run a mile and a half at top speed, then drop and do fifty pushups, then turn and do fifty situps, and then drink a glass of water without your hand shaking, you'll last 90 seconds in a street fight.

If you can't do that, you'll last under a minute.

More motivation to make it fast and make it count, if there is no alternative but to engage.

Senseless Act of Quotation

Lay your sleeping head, my love,
Human on my faithless arm
Time and fevers burn away
Individual beauty from thoughtful children
And the grave proves the child ephemeral;
But in my arms till break of day
Let the sleeping creature lie
Mortal, guilty, but to me
The entirely beautiful.

(....)

Certainty, fidelity
On the stroke of midnight pass
Like vibrations of a bell
And fashionable madmen raise
Their pedantic, boring cry:
Every farthing of the cost
All the dreaded cards foretell
Shall be paid--but from this night
Not a whisper, not a thought
Not a kiss nor look be lost.

Let the winds of dawn that blow
Softly round your dreaming head
Such a day of sweetness show
Eye and knocking heart may bless;
Noons of dryness find you fed
By the involuntary powers
Nights of insult let you pass
Watched by every human love.

--From "Lullaby," W. H. Auden



( maybe not so senseless )